Tag: Federal Policy
Malliotakis introduces bipartisan bill to improve seniors’ mental healthcare
This article was published in Staten Island Live on April 3, 2025. “America is facing an unprecedented behavioral health crisis, and we can only address the magnitude of the needs if we make mental health…
If You Are Paralyzed by Change, You Are Missing the Opportunity to Lead the Change
This opinion piece was authored by the Meadows Institute’s Chief Innovation Officer, Kacie Kelly, and Chief Policy Officer, John Snook. It was published in Behavioral Health Tech’s “Industry Insights” on March 13, 2025. Every consequential…
‘Go And Tell Your Story’
Meadows Institute experts share advice on speaking to lawmakers about pediatric integrated behavioral health care and the Collaborative Care Model at the AACAP legislative conference. The hundreds of child and adolescent psychiatrists from around the…
Extending the Clinical Impact of Behavioral Health Prescribing Clinicians Using the Collaborative Care Model
For years, the prevalence of behavioral health conditions has been increasing in the United States, with the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating this troubling trend. The demand for behavioral health treatment currently far outpaces the supply due…
“Now is an opportunity to be engaged”: Highlights from the 2023 Behavioral Health Tech Conference
A diverse array of behavioral health providers, health plans, investment firms, startups, as well as some of the leading minds in national mental health policy, flocked to Phoenix, Arizona last week for the 2023 Behavioral…
Top five takeaways from the first ever policy track at the 2023 Behavioral Health Tech Conference
The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute proudly partnered with Going Digital: Behavioral Health Tech to lead the first ever policy track at the 2023 Behavioral Health Tech Conference, held Nov. 15 – 17 in Phoenix, Arizona….
Using Digital Technology to Respond to the Youth Mental Health Crisis
This article was published by The Commonwealth Fund on July 26, 2023 and is authored by the Meadows Institute’s Kacie Kelly, Lindsey Engelman, and Solome Tibebu. Mental illness among young people in the United States…
Meadows Institute Takes to Capitol Hill in Support of Collaborative Care Expansion
More than 70 congressional health care staffers, federal agency officials, business innovators and leaders from mental health advocacy and professional associations crowded into a meeting room at the United States Capitol Visitor Center June 7…
There Are Still Too Many Barriers to Mental Health Care
This article was published by Prevention.com on June 1, 2023. Maybe you can only imagine the scenario, or perhaps you’ve experienced it. At night in bed, you hope sleep will obliterate the despairing emptiness that’s…
Near-Term Policy Solutions to Bolster Youth Mental Health Workforce through Digital Technology
In partnership with Going Digital: Behavioral Health Tech and with funding from The Commonwealth Fund, the Meadows Institute conducted research with key leaders across the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, Medicaid and Medicaid Managed…
Former Ohio Governor Kasich, Meadows Institute President & CEO Keller Discuss Historic Federal Investments in Mental Health
AUSTIN – Former Ohio Governor John Kasich and Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute President and CEO Andy Keller, PhD, discussed historic investments in mental health from the 117th U.S. Congress, including the 2022 Federal Omnibus…